343 Industries has issued an official statement about the release of Halo Online ElDewrito 0.6, stating that Microsoft has initiated actions to protect its Halo intellectual property. 343 Industries and Microsoft have clarified that while they do support mods and fan remakes, they will not allow copyrighted material to be distributed for free (as is the case with Halo Online ElDewrito).
As 343 Industries claimed:
“More recently, Installation 01 has garnered some buzz and even made headlines for receiving a thumbs-up from 343. Installation 01 is an original work, built from the ground up in a separate engine, that abides by Microsoft’s content usage guidelines. With Halo Online, there’s a common misconception that once it was canceled, the assets were either turned over as “open source” or left for the community’s whims as “abandonware” – neither of which is actually true. Not only did Microsoft issue takedown notices at the time of the original leaks, but many elements of that underlying code and content are still actively being used today and will continue to be in the future.”
I believe that it’s really important here to note that Microsoft is fine with fan projects as long as they are not using copyrighted assets or code from its games. However, that’s not the case with ElDewrito which re-enables all functionality to the cancelled Halo Online game.
343 Industries got in touch with the ElDewrito team and our guess is that the project will get shut down really soon due to legal implications. However, 343 Industries also acknowledged the desire for more Halo games on the PC platform, re-assuring fans that the PC community is very important to them and top of mind as they work towards the future.
“One thing remains clear – the community really wants more Halo on PC. As we look ahead, we’re very excited about the prospects of an official classic Halo experience making its way to PC and we hope to be able to partner with the ElDewrito team and broader mod and content creation community to help inform the types of experiences and features our fans desire. While we have nothing to announce today, please know that the PC community is very important to us and top of mind as we work towards the future.”
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“the PC community is very important to us”
Yep, they did a fine job on the PC versions of Halo: The Master Chief Collection and the campaign mode for Halo 5. Congratulations to 343 Industries and Phil Spencer for making good on their bold PR assurances that have in no way been hollow and meaningless. /s
New SEO of Microsoft said that he don’t believe in customer market on PC, he want to focus only on business market. Last month he fired Terry Myerson (25-years in MS – leader of Windows) and most developers from Windows division was moved to Business Azure Cloud division.
This is end of consumer Windows… some sources even said that Windows 10 RS5 will be last revision and some parts was cancelled
You’re trying too hard.
Liar Liar Pants On Fire!
The only thing more empty than their platitudes is their 1st party games lineup.
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That genuinely had me LOL!
The game is not dead! And it wont be dead, el dewrito is a mod of the Halo Online game, what this means is that the halo online files wont be made public to download.
LOL its like saying : hey guys can you help me delete CPY torrents from the internet?
Stupid MS. The game is p2p, everyone has it, everyone can host it. And even if they stop the development team, then someone else will carry on.
Tried eldewrito about a year ago (I think I still have the old installer and folders)… and thought it was really well made and just couldn’t understand how M$ didn’t just insta-Cease&Desist the whole thing…now things are starting to add up.
I’m surprised it toke this long for MS to act.
If you want to stop it release a functional version of the MCC for a cheap price faggots, also don’t require Windows 10 or the Windows Store. And since that ain’t happening I’ll stick to ElDewrito,.
Well if they would give people what they wanted and asked for we wouldn’t be having this problem now would we? only had 10 years so no excuse there.
can they™ shut it down™?
Sp4ctr0 Spencer lying? Who’d ever have thunk it!
You lose more respect with this move microsoft. See the problem with super companies is you think yourself immune to fan disapproval because you are the biggest game in town, but that is entirely untrue and you underestimate the stubborn tenacity of pissed off humans.